Tag: Google

Keep an eye on your site

These days we can read about all kinds of attacks, software vulnerabilities, security updates for blogs more then ever before, and I don’t think this will ever slow down as long as the attackers can earn money from this activity 🙁 . Therefore you as the site owner must keep …

Cuil.com – How to not launch a search engine

This Monday a new search engine had premier. It’s called Cuil (pronounced “cool”) and is created by two former Google employees Amanda Patterson and Tom Costello. From the start they claim they have over 120 billion pages indexed: We’ve created the world’s biggest index, and we’ve also developed useful features …

No deal between Digg and Google

Looks like it’s not going to be any merger between Digg and Google because according to rumors Digg was notified on Tuesday or Friday that Google was not longer interested. According to TechCrunch Google was in the due diligence stage of the deal, where they “digg” 🙂 deep into Digg’s …

Google Documents spam

This is actually the first time I have seen a spam message with a link to a document at docs.google.com get past the spam filter. If you click the link you’re taken to a document at Google Documents with a link in big letters followed by a nonsense text. Could …

Google Adwords phishing attempt

I just got an email from Google informing me of possible phishing attempts and that I should be “on my watch” for suspicious emails appearing to be from Google. Here’s the email I got (I removed @ from the email addresses): At Google, we take the safety of our users …